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3rd track from Wyclef’s debut LP, ‘The Carnival’.
Cover of “Guantanamera” (Spanish: “from Guantánamo [feminine]”, thus “woman from Guantánamo”); perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country’s most noted patriotic song.

Composed by Joseíto Fernández, the lyrics to the song is about a woman from Guantánamo, with whom he had a romantic relationship, and who eventually left him. The alleged real story behind these lyrics (or at least one of many versions of the song’s origin that Fernández suggested during his lifetime) is that she did not have a romantic interest in him, but merely a platonic one.